Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Nilometer and the Sacred Soil: A Diary of a Tour Through Egypt, Palestine, and Syria
This interesting route of travel becoming more frequented, and consequently better understood, each succeeding year, natu rally excites the curiosity of those having the hope of doing it yet in store; and, as a sequence, comes the question: How to do it?
The great point is to obtain a good dragoman; and, if for tune favors you in this particular, the success of your voyage is almost assured; whereas the constant annoyances and dis satisfaction arising from having a bad one will poison, if not mar, all your joyous anticipations.
Thus, on the Nile, we were happy in the selection of mohammed-cl-adli, an Egyptian, who, we think, has not his superior; but it was far different in Syria.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
